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Miss Richards, In Her Prelude To Provmwe (richards'...

6d.), knows that in one volume she cannot describe in meticulous detail the dreaming beauty of the country or the enormous wealth of monuments it can boast, and therefore, and......

Christian Unity : Its History And Challenge, By The Rev.

Gains Jackson Slosser, Ph.D. (Kegan Paul, 21s.), is the latest testi- mony to humanity's age-long striving to realize the great ideal of the Founder of Christianity. Its value......

Few Pioneers Have Experienced More Of The Ups And Downs

f fortune, the alternate favour and ingratitude of their contemporaries, than did Bolivar, the founder of Bolivia and liberator of Venezuela, Columbia, Chili, Peru, and other......

Jn His Politische Novelle, Translated With The Title The...

are Coining (Knopf, 6s.) Bruno Frank presents us with the first symbolic study of the European peace movement. It tells of the Meeting near Cannes between Carmer, a German......

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will hope that under General Higgins the Salvation y may achieve greater success than ever and forget its differences. But the story of the recent crisis was worth , as has been......

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unnous volume by Ernest Crawley, edited by Theodore Etesterman, will dd little to further the reputation of its [istinguished author. These notes (for they are little more han......

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